Yes, I just received the following mail: Congratulations! You have been accepted to the N810 maemo device program. We will send your discount and instructions as soon as the device is available in your selected shop (soon). maemo team - > http://maemo.org So christmas is saved.
Explaination for non German Readers: Today the german parliament passed an act, which orders all communication-connection data (caller-ids, times, email-communication, other internet-transactions) have to be stored for 6 months. More info on vorratsdatenspeicherung.de
it sometimes funny, i’m working with mutt since about 10 years, (the 5 years before i was using elm) and just found out how i can view pure text/html-Mails without fiddeling with piping and things. set implicit_autoview in .muttrc does the trick. but now mutt also prefers the text/html-part of multipart/alternative-mails, this is going to far for me. i want the text/plain-part if available. mutt has also a solution here: ...
I have no idea how the other major MTAs handle this, but sendmail seems to issue an ident-auth-request on each connect it gets. As i think this is rather useless, as most hosts don’t answer it, and, even if they would, the answer is easily fakeable, i switched it off. adding define(confTO_IDENT', 0’)dnl to /etc/mail/sendmail.mc disables this. Sadly this isn’t documented, for confTO_IDENT it only states The timeout waiting for a response to an IDENT query. ...
From time to time we have the problem that a mail posted to a list triggers an autoresponse (vacation, bounce, tdma) from an unexpected source. Sometimes it isn’t possible to identify the subscriber who is causing this. One example for this was “petsupermarket”. So i wrote a small tool, which takes Mailadresses as input and resolves the domains until it reaches IP-level, so it is possible to identify “related” addresses to such an incident. ...
Every two weeks i get this: $ xterm & Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached xterm Xt error: Can't open display: :0.0 and it looks that something eats up the possible number of Clients: $ xlsclients |wc -l 56 when i restart X i can open about 100 xterms until i reach the error message. ideas?
The German parliament changed the law on 25th may 2007. It’s now forbidden to build, program, give, distribute or get software, which can be used to attack computers. that’s something i do on a daily basis. (think nmap) so it is only a question of time that i get caught. German pressrelease of the CCC
We found out that Simple PHP Blog, the software that is used for this Blog, can’t be packaged for Debian at the moment, because the License looks like this: The Simple PHP Blog is released under the GNU Public License. You are free to use and modify the Simple PHP Blog. All changes must be uploaded to SourceForge.net under Simple PHP Blog. Credit must be give to the original author and the Simple PHP Blog logo graphic must appear on the site and link to the project on SourceForge.net ...
Do you know this? you write a brilliant entry for a blog, a blog-comment or something in a textarea-field in your browser. after finished, you press the Send-Button, and … the browser crashes, or nothing happens because Javacript or Cookies were disabled in your browser. the result is, the brilliant text you just wrote by investing time has gone to bit-heaven. Has anyone a solution for this, beside writing in a text-editor, pasting it over to the textarea, fighting against linebreaks and things? ...
you see my Spamstats for the time i run an own server for my domain. The input consists mainly from cord@Wunder-Nett.org that is in existence since mid-1996, and a (tuned) catch all on cord.de. Unreadable is the stuff encoded as russian, chinese, korean, … Backscatter are Bounces due to misused Mailadresses. Virusspam is the stuff ClamAV catches. Spam is recognized by bogofilter Dupes were Mails with the same Message-Id in a short time period. Ham are those messages that survived the other filters. In 05/2004 i had a big downtime due to broken Harddisk and/or cheap IDE-Cables (which was finally solved in 2006). In 11/2004 i became Debian-Listmaster, and forwarded the listmaster-mails to my system. In 08/2005 i stopped forwarding listmaster-Mail and the admin-mail from LUG-OWL and let them drop into a local Mailbox on the specific servers. In 06/2006 The power supply of my server died, and HaJo had a fitting spare device, so i took it to the local hardware gods (C&M sorry, only Flash) and they implanted it, they also replaced all Fans (6 of which 4 were stuck) and replaced the IDE-Cables. Now i even could switch on DMA without risking a crash. (Man, 3years of crippled server). As you see, the system is now able to accept even more spam. In 12/2006 i added greylisting on my server. My 2nd MX currently doesn’t do greylisting. ...